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    Irregular and illegal Land Acquisition by Kenya’s Elites: Trends, Processes, and Impacts of Kenya’s Land-Grabbing Phenomenon

    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2011
    Kenya
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Investments
    Land Conflicts
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    community land rights
    compensation
    customary land rights
    customary tenure
    Indigenous Peoples
    land
    land access
    land acquisitions
    land conflicts
    land governance
    land grabbing
    land investments
    land policies
    land rights
    land tenure
    land use

    The International Land Coalition (ILC) has commissioned this present report to analyze the illegal/irregular acquisition of land by Kenya’s elites to ascertain the types of land affected, the processes used to acquire land, and the profiles of the perpetrators, as well as to identify the victims and the impacts of land grabbing. The report is drawn largely from the Kenya Land Alliance (KLA)’s series “Unjust Enrichment: The Making of Land Grabbing Millionaires”,

  2. Library Resource

    Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa. Country Report: Ethiopia

    Reports & Research
    May, 2011
    Ethiopia, Africa
    Land Conflicts
    Land & Investments
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    land
    land deals
    displacement
    environment
    compensation
    farmland
    scale

    Contains country context, study of land investment, benefits and impacts. Finds wide discrepancies between public positions and laws and what is happening on the ground, an absence of environmental controls, widespread displacement from farmland without compensation, little local benefit, many land deals involve small-scale investors with limited agricultural experience.

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    Commercial Biofuel Land Deals & Environment and Social Impact Assessments in Africa: Three case studies in Mozambique and Sierra Leone

    Reports & Research
    April, 2011
    Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Africa
    Land Conflicts
    Land & Investments
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    land
    land deals
    displacement
    environment
    food security
    assessment

    Examines 3 case studies of proposed biofuel developments in Mozambique and Sierra Leone in terms of social displacement. More mitigation measures could provide livelihood restitution and avoid negative food security impacts.

  4. Library Resource

    The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations

    ‘I lost my land. It’s like I’m not a human being.’

    Reports & Research
    September, 2011
    Uganda
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Investments
    Land Conflicts
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    agrarian reform
    common property
    compulsory acquisitions
    dispossession
    forest land
    forestry
    land
    land conflicts
    land deals

    London-based New Forests Company (NFC) would seem to be the design blueprint of how a young modern company should conduct a major land investment in Africa in a responsible way. Oxfam’s investigations reveal that serious allegations by people who were evicted from land to make way for NFC’s operations remain unresolved. How will the company respond?

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